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In Chapter 7 we saw how, for a connected and simply connected space E, the set {S k, E} has a natural structure as an abelian group for k ≥ 2. We called this the k-th homotopy group of E and denoted it by π k (E).
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Schwarz, A.S. (1994). Homotopy Groups. In: Topology for Physicists. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02998-5_9
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